thing for joining our team for a look at the headlines that shape this week the south is hit by its deadliest summer floods thousands of people from across the country joint efforts to help those who've lost everything. the un observers confirmed violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels and the village trying to say but the findings full of opposition claims of a civilian massacre into question. and days of an teil sturdy protest in spain lead to dozens of injuries amid warnings that the e.u.

strategy of bailing out banks at the people's expense all only fuel public anger. that we talk with a former national security agency executive in the u.s. who sacrificed his career to blow the whistle on wrongdoing inside the n.s.a. . my guest today is thomas andrews drake he was a senior executive of america's biggest intelligence agency at the beginning of the two thousands he was an expert on elec tronic eavesdropping someone with a top secret security clearance then mr drake essentially secor feist his career to blow the whistle on his agency's wrongdoings as he saw them he was charged under the espionage act but only last year the charges were dropped this drake thank you very much for coming thanks for having me tell me about the program that you

challenge to working with the national security agency the surveillance program what was its potential harm as you saw it there was the very large flagship program called trailblazer that was designed to catapult n.s.a. into the twenty first century to deal with the vast amounts of data being generated from the digital age given the massive fraud and abuse and it n.s.a. had created with the trial as a program as well as a super secret surveillance program they completely violated the constitution and the fourth amendment and in particular in particular the statute called the foreign intelligence surveillance act which was the first command at n.s.a. you did not violate americans privacy without a warrant under that statute in fact if you did they were criminal penalties for doing so and i found this out to my horror and shock shortly after nine eleven. the n.s.a. had entered into a secret agreement with the white house in which n.s.a. would become the executive agent for this sort of secret surveillance program on

the front end was designed to deal with the threat of the terrorist threat and that was for understandable but what it did is it actually essentially turn the united states into just a collection platform so you know vast reams of data are increasingly being collected or through other entities be made available to n.s.a. for analysis there's a lot of debate about this proposed legislation i'm sure you heard about it the system which will in the name of national security would allow web service providers to funnel private information of their users to the authorities to government agencies aren't they already doing that i mean many argue that providers you know google facebook and other companies they they need the legislation to protect themselves from being liable for what they're already doing and that's why those companies who lobby for the bill well that's what i believe that's part of it the other part of it is the government just wants even more access to even more

data and so i mean under the patriot act and section two fifteen there is a secret executive interpretation of that which essentially grants the government pretty much unfettered access to subscriber information that's held by those companies. since that would take out and there's other variants of that would take that to the next level you know under under the label or the rubric of you know cyber threats and to provide sort of cyber security the government wants even more invasive access almost persistent access to networks that are not normally available to the public and i understand the technology is so advanced now that it is probably so very tempting for intelligence agencies to siphon all that they get but what is the goal is it total thirty and i believe if you take what has been happening since in kind of our post nine. eleven security world what you're seeing is the establishment of a sort of surveillance society years your senior stablish of the surveillance

network and i keeps telling people people realize the extent to which we're already surveilled in many many different ways the extent to which vast amounts of our own transactional data in all forms all i try forms and e-mails and your tweets and bank records everything else are all subject for or sauce suspect ok in terms of terms of of surveillance it raises the specter of kind of the rise of soft tyranny it raises the specter of you're automatically suspicious until you prove that you're not it raises the specter of a universal quality universal wiretap a persistent universal wiretap on every single person or if it not they can create one because what happens if they don't like you what happens you speak ill will against a government what happens if you say something they consider disloyal i mean that's not the country that i took an oath to defend four times in my government career

and you also have the fear element fear in itself is control and what people will do when they're fearful is they were they will begin to censor themselves so much of what's happening now particular my case it sent it extraordinarily chilling message that anybody and i was a senior executive the government had a very high position to say. it sends that extraordinarily chilling message that if you speak out if you speak up we're going to hammer you and we're going to hammer you hard because look what we did to mr drake and national security has effectively become the state religion you don't question it and if you question it then your loyalty is questioned i want to ask you about julian assange he's we can make cables exposed the u.s. complicity in torture and other crimes how angry you think washington is that julian assange which i think they're extremely angry at the fact that there's apparently based on press reporting you know there's a secret grand jury there maybe even a secret indictment they want to get him and they want to put him away i mean there

are those in this country of very high levels to call for the death penalty. and sweden does not promise they they can't make a guarantee that if they did bring him back to sweep for questioning he would be extradited to the united states and believe me if the united states got its hands on him they're going to do everything they could to put him away as long as they can or worse this is a very long reach and far as is similar to what i went through i mean they it was a multi-year multi-million dollar criminal and nasty investigation that i got caught up inside of and they spent several years several years in my own particular case trying to figure out how to bring an indictment against me speaking truth to power is very dangerous in today's world the power elites. those in charge they don't like dirty linen being aired they don't like the skeletons in the closet being seen. and they not only do they object to it they decide

to turn it into criminal activity remember my will so blowing was criminalized by my own government. i know i had no protection although ostensibly they couldn't reprise against me retaliate they did but i also find striking is that there is there's basically a smear campaign against journalists too for example a report on civilian deaths in u.s. drone strikes i read a number of articles where u.s. administration officials basically accused them of helping terrorists and that label terrorist help where it seemed it is becoming a convenient tool to brush off investigative journalism isn't it what it is you go after the messenger and because the last thing i want to do is deal with the message you're talking about all the activities the secret surveillance the warrantless wiretapping torture rendition drone strikes and a whole host of other measures that i would assert are extra constitutional not to do they violate our own law also violate

a number of international laws go after the messenger not the message because see the bridge to actually discuss the message or to address the message becomes very uncomfortable. so essentially what's happened is that law which and we're a nation of laws the if we start to depart which you already have in a very significant moving away from that from being a nation of laws and simply leave it up to policy to substitute we're going down a very slippery slope and in the united states of america everybody's reporting on this feeling by race that the u.s. and its well allegedly developed to spy on iran and then there is the actual cyber weapon the stuxnet which created havoc in iran's nuclear facilities we hear u.s. officials condemn cyber attacks all the time but it turns out that the u.s. government itself is involved in cyber attacks how do you see it well based on what can only be authorized leaks which is an oxymoron coming from within the administration other senior officials they want people to know right believe that's

the case i think that somebody is has not been reported they actually wanted people to know i think some people say oh it's just war makes makes the administration look good you know sort of you know selling their oats and say hey we're we're the man here they want people to know they want to know what the united states is capable of doing it is a it is another form of warfare it is a you know it is a cyber weapon but it's a pandora's box because we're now in kind of uncharted territory as it's virtual war to say it that way it's a virtual conflict i mean the pentagon itself has been on record that if a nation conducts what is allegedly being conducted by this country against other countries using things like stuxnet that's an act of war but apparently if were doing it's not considered an act it's information operations or cyber operations so it goes it goes under a whole host of other labels to make it something different from what it really is . so where were the lines drawn i want to go back to you becoming a whistleblower you had a well paid job

a couple zisha in america's biggest intelligence agency you turned it all down you went to work to an apple store i wonder how do you decide to go for something like that you can't put a price on freedom and i took an oath i mean my oath was to the constitution that took primacy over everything else so what do you do you're faced realising you're a whore that your own government is an abject violation of the very oath that you took the very constitution that you took an oath to defend support defend against all enemies foreign domestic faithfully executing that law and you're finding out in secret that your own government is in violation of it and then you know that was never necessary you knew that the best of american inventiveness and ingenuity could of not only provide superior intelligence like the thin thread program but would have done so in complete compliance with the fourth amendment and they tossed

it overboard because they didn't want those controls they didn't want that oversight most people don't stand up to power because power wields a lot of power and power can do you win or make life very difficult but i wasn't just standing up for myself i was standing up for you know the generations that follow me thank you thanks for having me. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operation to rule the day.

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hello there thanks for watching and these are the headlines king of the ring danny garcia stops in a car in the fourth round to claim boxing's w.b. a super lightweight crown. while russian kickboxer vladimir grabs another world heavyweight title in front of home fans. and rubin playing the first right to the russian football season in beijing families champions and eight in the city pick up fine. start there with the boxing because american danny garcia has beaten britain's america to claim the w.b. a super lightweight crime garcia was the underdog in las vegas be saying count of the canvas with a left hook in the third round although can be canned he was floored again twice in succession before the referee ended and it means garcia takes can be a title and holds on hold of his own w.b.c. crown his m.b.t.

record stretching to twenty four wins fifteen by knockout. meanwhile russian kickboxer very near has claimed another world heavyweight crang beating germany's daniel daughter for the w.-k. a title and he did it in front of hundreds of fans at the so-called u.s.s.r. championships near moscow which also saw several european title fights on the undercard his robert for daniel. once upon a time in the east you dude of the most cool region the best friend and boilers from the former soviet republics the police to find out who was the toughest there is how these keep boxing tournaments stirred nine years ago you know it has grown into big open their showdown in three missional titles let's take. some of the mystic affairs first though the twenty twelve supercar. opened with the russian light welterweight championship five rounds of it to from both the graph of

clue and out victory over his competitor at. some big again i swear next to do battle with the w five european cruiserweight title at stake. vs how bunny. the russian doing needed the first two rounds of the belts over the french champ in front of the starch later on. and was even to toy with his opponent a hard decision for the judges. in the group whose favor that's how it came to some world titles on the line with the russia. and ukraine superman milo sit in no probably the most furious clash of the night bush gave their all to secure the w five we'll to wait bill but it was the ukrainian thunder to head north to. i took my time in the early rounds to take

a closer look at my opponent's moves i realized he was faster than me so i had to rely on my cardio and just try to break him down i kept moving on always putting him under pressure and you know i just did more in the ring that's what gave me the edge and this was top of the bill one of russia's biggest heavyweight prospects. as he's on the w k eight title and so did germany's danielle door who proved to be a tough nut to crack after this diverse stating right to buy meaning in the second round the great german managed to cover and say up to the end of the boy and although he was bitten or left the ring with his head held high and. over in further proof of his skills i had better timing that's why my punches landed on his body and had and he spun mile both robert jordan known r.t. asco region. in other news the rubin kazan have claimed the first trophy of the

russian football season the russian cup winners downing reigning premier league champions and even some are staff strikes in salvador the chatty valley may day do knocking the stuffing out of the need to know the final score of the game was preceded by a minute's silence for the hundred seventy one people who died in floods in southern russia last weekend. to athletics and there have been upsets at the diamond league meeting in london with some favorites for the upcoming olympics struggling in the cold wet weather shelley and fraser price is the fastest woman in the world this year over one hundred metres but she came last in saturday's final which was won by blessing body of nigeria eleven point zero one seconds america's comedy hit yet it was third while a striding world champion sally pearson was the favorite for the hundred meter hurdles but she was beaten by american kelly wells here however better news for the women's reigning four hundred meter a limb pick champion christina who she powered past world champion here

a man for one show of botswana to win in a time of fifty one point one nine seconds while frenchman christophe lemaitre clocked a season's best in the men's two hundred meters coming home in nineteen point nine one only jamaicans you saying bolt and your home plate have gone quicker. if you and your crew are not very first. here. for the olympics. if you don't for the first if you didn't. know i must be. true or card. for stores or for a deal to give me a. now i will start in pole position for moto g.p.'s italian grand prix on sunday but rosa whizzing around with yellow circuit to set a new that record but he was only one thousandth of a second faster than championship. who will start second on the grid this race

marks the half way point of the season and it's turning into a real tussle between these two spanish riders renzo who rides for yamaha is just fourteen points ahead of the drives are in the standings. very very strong here seen flying very comfortable so i hope to do a good race also in and get some. mental confidence for tomorrow and you know star. john deere classic. john deere classic story troy matters similar take a three shot lead into the final round in illinois the american carded a five under par sixty six to keep ahead of the three time defending champion steve stricker the pair will tear off together on sunday stricker also hit a sixty six and is on fifteen under par overall this is a birdie putt from him on the seventeenth. this is the close out the scottish open in the in the knesset francesco molinari has

a one shot lead there after three rounds hitting a bogey free sixty seven on saturday to edge of head of denmark's anders hansen hanson here had a steady day and was finding the greens well despite the weather phil mickelson is three shots off the lead and world number one luke donald is a further shot back. with more score to do it was a few of those wind blowing in the morning or. you know our pro world especially over from a lot of the chances. some good parts did in going to the store you know just try to do the same tomorrow and often it would be enough. in tennis topsy janko tipsarevic will play one monaco in the final of the miss a nice cup in germany later today the serb got the better brazilian thomas baluchi in the semifinal they needed three sets in a match that lasted just over two hours out of each though three to his first play call final on the a.t.p.

tall. white in the way it is the argentine run monaco although he had some problems in his win over spain's camero garcia lopez want to go took the first set but then dropped the second and squandered a five one lead in the third before coming back to win that seven five for the match. thanks and second seed man in chile is through to the croatia open final he beat defending champion alexander pullover of ukraine seven five six two to stay on course to become the first crack to win the tournament since nine hundred ninety and next up is spain's marcela canal let's. sort of do that he is really smart tennis player and he knows how to play the game and you would can compare him with brad does go over the side so. much stronger there but he's showed that he can play really well tactically and he's the beings this player who played already four or five times so we know each other. thing is going to be similar to thing to do is

to try to play really well practically invented execute the short so i need to know is had a tough match against the top seed finance at asco in his semifinal after taking the first set but asco won the next on a tie break to level the match before getting older swept through the decider six one. and lastly three time grand. capriati has been inducted into the international tennis hall of fame she was presented by another tennis great want to set as during a ceremony at newport rhode island just fourteen capriati reached the semifinals of the french open in one nine hundred ninety however drug problems saw her drop off the tour nine hundred ninety three but she returned three years later and went on to win a limpid gold in barcelona two french open titles and new strain open and it's a life story that makes quite emotional. and wonderful tennis of you has given me so much and challenge me in so many ways. it has given me great joy on and off the court as well as

a lot of pain on on and off the court. but it has taught me what overcoming fear is all about it has taught me what hard work and commitment means it has taught me what self-love this. is taught me what acceptance and forgiveness can bring and she was a lot of high payoff to woods to i can tell you that for the moment i'm back into. the world with. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. wealthy british style. but i was going to.

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